"So...you're saying this girl- what's her name again?" Cisco Ramone paced Barry and Joe's living room as he spoke, the owners of said living room standing behind him.
"Lily Anderson," answered Barry, "She was drawing the Reverse Flash. Right there on her brother's desk."
Cisco frowned. "Whaa?"
The door opened, but all three realized when it was Doctor Caitlin Snow that walked through. "Hey guys, sorry I'm late," she said apologetically, "Did I miss anything?"
"Yeah!" said Cisco in a panic, "There's some crazy girl who knows about the Reverse Flash!"
"She's not crazy," corrected Barry. "The man who- the other guy in the picture, Everett Anderson? He allegedly committed a homicide about six years ago. I think Blaine told me she was really affected by it, by their dad, I mean."
"Who's Blaine?"
"Lily's other brother, besides Cooper, who works for the CCPD. He's also my friend. We met in high school."
"So...hang on a second. The Reverse Flash killed Everett Anderson?"
"Wouldn't surprise me," Cisco muttered.
"No," said Joe, his cop face on, "Everett Anderson stabbed his wife and daughter and then turned a gun on himself, according to the files we could dig up. It happened in Westerville, Ohio, which is south of Starling and northeast of Keystone."
"And this is exactly what happened, right?" asked Caitlin, looking to Barry, who had an expression of deep affected thought on his face.
"Not necessarily." Barry said, decidedly. "I don't know much about it, and the CCPD only has the record that the case was closed because Everett died."
"You can't arrest someone who's dead," chimed in Cisco quietly.
"Exactly."
"But why the Andersons, though? You barely know them. I thought that the man in yellow was only after you," said Caitlin, still trying to wrap her head around the idea of Harrison Wells being the Reverse Flash.
"I don't know," said Barry. "But I'll have to look more into it."
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Lily sat at Cooper's desk alone, finishing homework. She hadn't brought her drawing supplies with her today; she did have pencils and her plane sketchbook- the smallest 5 by 7.
And so, Lily drew, but this time, it was of lightning, and of Central City going by in a flash. And of the man in yellow in hot pursuit of a small figure.
While she did, the girl was entirely aware of the fact that Barry Allen was watching her. Lily left a message in the book; the book she left on the desk for him to find...
Catch him if you can.
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Not a City of Angels
FanficBarry Allen was painfully aware that the Reverse Flash had completely altered the course of his life by murdering his mother, but what he didn't count on was ghosts from his high school days coming back to get him, at age twenty-five. If only the w...
